The ArcInTexETN aims to strengthen the foundations of design for more sustainable forms of living by connecting architecture, interaction design and textiles in a training network for early stage researchers.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 642328.

The research project ArcInTexETN is now on its last year. For three years, the PhD students of the project have conducted research on the future’s ways of living and building. The PhD students met in late January at the Heriot-Watt University in Galasheils, Scotland, for one last joint workshop before they are going to compile…

The glass formed unpredictable shapes when it was blown into textile moulds the students had made from woven and knitted metal. These experiments were part of the workshop organized within ArcInTexETN project that explores new relationships between textiles and architecture. Architect Iva Rešetar led the workshop together with master glassblowers at The Glass Factory…

A different presentation, touching all the senses, was recently performed by two doctoral students within the European research network ArcInTexETN. The doctoral students Jyoti Kapur, placed at the Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås, Sweden, and Justė Pečiulytė, placed at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, made a collaborative entry, bridging distinctive viewpoints from their…

CROSSOVER BORÅS 2017, the 18th conference of the European Textile Network, ETN, took place on 12-19 September. The conference aimed to present a global perspective on the different textile practices and their interactions – with a special focus on sustainable creativity and innovation in Textile Art&Design. One of the many workshops during the conference week…

Ana Ines Rodrigues is the newest PhD-student to join the ArcInTexETN programme. Ana is usually placed at Heriot-Watt University, Galashiels (Edinburgh) but is currently doing her secondment at The Swedish School of Textiles in Borås. It is WP4, and more specifically textile structures for adaptive and responsive clothing, that will be Ana’s focus in her…

This autumn, Ramyah Gowrishankar had the opportunity to present and participate in the International Symposium for Wearable Computing 2017 (ISWC17) conference from the 11th to the 15th September 2017. The conference, which was combined with the UbiComp conference had two days of workshops and three days of interesting talks and presentations. Ramyah presented a paper…

Troy had the unique opportunity to work with Dr. Jacqueline Naismith of the College of Creative Arts Toi Rauwharang. Together we made space suits imagining what a public park in space might be like. The resulting publication is available at http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/everydayfutures/resources/artefact-blogs/6/ and reprinted here: Zero G° Choreographies Troy Nachtigall, Department of Industrial Design, Wearable Senses Lab, TU Eindhoven…

Smart Textiles Design Lab is presenting the ongoing research in smart textiles design which is conducted at the Swedish School of Textiles and within the ArcintexETN project at MoOD and Indigo Brussels 2017. The research projects exhibited will showcase advancement in textile techniques; explorations in new materials, e.g., thermochromics, kinetic yarns, living/growing textiles and 3D…

Juste Peciulyte (ESR9) directed two workshop-performance sessions named ‘Interior performance’ at ARTVILNIUS 17′ International Contemporary Art Fair (June 8 – June 11, 2017). As a part of her research methodology she has been setting ‘staging sessions’ in diverse contexts and circumstances. This time during ARTVILNIUS17′, under Malunu 5 (exhibition space at Vilnius Academy of Arts) educational programme…

ArcInTexETN researchers Ramyah Gowrishankar (Design Research Lab) and Iva Rešetar (Digital and Experimental Design) participated in 3rd Colloquium for doctoral candidates at Berlin University of the Arts. The event, hosted by BAS and Design Transfer, gave us an opportunity to present ongoing research projects and engage in the public discussion in a cross-disciplinary setting. We…